Page One: “Knocked Up” (2007)
Published in
May 17, 2021
Written by Judd Apatow
The movie version of the opening:
A contrast of two lifestyles in one page. It sets the question: How will these two worlds intersect? That’s a good thing to establish as it motivates the script reader to turn the page in order to find out.
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